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Starcraft 2?

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:04:56 +0000

Has anybody gotten this to work? I can't even get it to install. :(

gnu backgammon problem

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:49:44 +0000

Any backgammon players out there?

I installed gnu backgammon gnubg 0.9 on my 2010.2 system with KDE.

As I near the end of a game, the program crashes (sometimes) with the following message:

Segmentation fault

Can anyone help?

PandoraMT2 as Metin2

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:54:29 +0000

Long time looking for alternatives to Metin2. There is PandoraMT2 private server. Just act like the usual Metin2 only everything is easier, new weapons, clothes etc.. The server is now only 1 server 4 CH, but you can play. The required speed is a little faster, though I do not know? I will try to insert a screen, Pandora is also a forum, a very cool forum and so far people are more friendly. Runs on Linux without a problem because it is only one directory. I recommend the Prock 2GHz resolution 800x600 good point. In one day you do 50 levels, no problem ...... Lex

http://pandoramt2.pl/

http://www.pandoramt2.pl/forum/forum.php

Movies

http://www.google.pl/search?q=Pandor...ed=0CEkQqwQwAg

Cheating at Freeciv

Sun, 22 May 2005 11:20:04 +0000

I would like to know how to cheat at Freeciv.

Specifically, I would like to know you can modify the .sav files so that I can give myself extra technology bonuses. I have searched the internet high and low and there seems to be nothing around to help me. I would have thought that this could be achieved in the Freeciv server command line but nothing I have read about helps.

Today I managed to unzip the .sav file. I found the information on my civilization, bumped up the technology thingy to "50" and then tried to rezip it up. Once it had been saved I then loaded it into the server and...

The server crashed and turned off.

I'd better explain the reasons for my shame... When I used to play Civ2 in my Win98 days I often would set the conditions to extreme (maximum amount of AI, maximum difficulty, massive barbarians, no huts) but then grant myself modern technology so that my Mech Inf units could ward off the barbarian hoardes and Shaka Zulu as I expanded outwards. Of course I was never good enough to win the game on my own merits... so I would cheat and have a great time. I would like to do the same with Freeciv.

SuperTux level editor?

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:43:12 +0000

I've Googled this but not found anything clear to a layman. Is there a binary rpm somewhere that can be installed in a straightforward way? (Failing that I'll bite the bullet and build one with MAKE if I can find a mandy-friendly source distribution of the editor.) My kids really want to make their own Supertux levels. :)

WoW latest patch

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:48:17 +0000

I get an error that just says the patch failed. Not very informative I know, but has anybody gotten this to work?

Game Icon Mega Packs

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:36:37 +0000

Time to releasing my game icon packs. Each pack contains 202 game icons + 11 bonus icons.

The Bespin Game Packs fits well for thomas12777 (at kde-look.org) Bespin themes: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Bespin?content=63928

The Kontrast Game Pack is made for Docks like; Daisy Plasmoid, kiba dock, etc.

This is the first versions of the packs, but I'll release new versions with more icons in them.

Note; I'll take requests but only for games that run natively in Linux. So no wine/cedega/dosbox/other games.

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Bespin Game Pack - Black

Download

Bespin Game Pack - White

Download

Kontrast Game Pack

Download

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Screenshots:

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Game Icon List

0 a.d.

8 Kingdoms

Achron

Advanced Strategic Command

Age of Conquest

Aleph One

Alien Arena

Americas Army

Aquaria

Ardentryst

Arkanoid: Space Ball

Armagetron Advanced

Assault Cube

Astromenace

Atomic Tanks

Awesome Soccer

Battle Tanks

Billiards

Blood Frontier

Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid

Buggy Race

Bullet Candy Perfect

BZFlag

Candy Cruncher

Car Arena

Caster 1+2

Celestia

Chromium B.S.U.

Cold War

Conquest: Divide and Conquer

Counter Strike 2D

CreepSmash

Cube

Cute Knight Deluxe

Dark Places

Darwinia

Deep Voyage

DefCon

DH Lore

Dirk Dashing: Secret Agent!

Dofus

Dominions 1+2+3

Doom 3

Droid Assault

Eschalon Book 1+2

F1 Spirit

Fashion Cents Deluxe

Fashion Cents Gents

Fish Fillets - Next Generation

FizzBall

Flight Gear

FreeCiv

FreeCol

FreeLords

FretsOnFireX

Frozen Bubbles

GalCon

Galcon Fusion

GemRB

Gish

GL-117

Glest

Grappling Hook

H-Craft Championship

Hacker Evolution

Hammer of Thyrion

HedgeWars

Heroes of Newerth

Hive Rise

Hotei's Jewels: Relax

Irukandji

Jets'n'Guns

Katawa Shoujo

Knights & Merchants

La Vida

LGeneral

Little Space Duo

Lost Labyrinth

Lunar Domination

Lua Lua

Lux Delux

Machinarium

Mad Skills Motocross

Majesty Gold

Martians v.s. Robots

M.A.X. Reload

Mechanical Tower

Mega Mek

MX Simulator

Mystic Mine

My Tribe

Naev

NetPanzer

Neverball

Neverwinter Nights

Nexuiz

Now Boarding

oolite

OpenArena

OpenLieroX

OpenTTD

OpenTyrian

Out of the Park Baseball

Palomino Flight Simulator

PlaneShift

Plee The Bear

Polynomial

Postal 2

PoxNora

Prey

Privateer Gemini Gold

Professor Fizzwizzle 1+2

Quake 1+2+3+4

Quake Live

Quake Wars

Racer

Rain Slick 1+2

Regnum Online

Resistance Force

Rigs of Rods

Road Fighter

Runes of Avalon 1+2

Sacred Gold

Sauerbraten

Savage 1+2

Science Girls

Scourge

Second Life

Secret Maryo Chronicles

Shadowgounds 1+2

Simcity 3000

Simutrans

Skulltag

Smoking Guns

Sokobano

Space Ping Pong Match

Spandex Force

Spirited Heart

Stellarium

SuperTux

Syntensity

TA Spring

Tasty Static

TeeWorlds

The Adventures of Rick Rocket

The Amazing Brain Train

The Attack of Mutant Fruits from Outer Space

The Flower Shop

The Goonies

The Maze of Galious

Those Funny Funguloids

Tiny'n'Big

TitanAttacks

Toribash

Tremulous

TripleA

True Combat Elite

UT2003

UT2004

UFO2000

UFO Alien Invasion

Ultratron

Unknown Horizons

Unreal

Uplink

Urban Terror

VDrift

Vega Strike

Vendetta Online

Warsow

Warzone 2100

Waterstorm

Wesnoth

Widelands

Wolfenstein

World of Goo

World of Padman

Wormux

X-Moto

X-Plane

Xonotic

Yoda Soccer

Yo Frankie

Bonus Icons

Arch Linux

Cedega

Dosbox

Kubuntu Linux

Nvidia

Platinum Arts Sandbox

PlayOnLinux

Scummvm

Typhon

Wine

Zsnes

Machinarium

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:27:24 +0000

Just want to mention a great game I played lately: http://machinarium.net/demo/

If you like puzzle adventure games (point'n'click), this game is worth the money.

It cost $20 and you'll get full game + full mp3 DRM free music (19 tracks) of the game.

eschalon

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:30:09 +0000

It's been a long time and you helped me in the past, I'm back for more help.

Eschalon a rpg game, ran very well on mandriva 2008.0 and .1

However on 2009 it runs incredibly slowly, the music and actual graphics are fine, but the mouse movement is very jerky and the play is almost standstill.

I am using a hp laptop (old) with a nvideo 3200 vidoe card. and a xorg driver.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Nic

PS. video in general was better in 2008.1 than it has in 2009, I'm hoping 2009.1 will improve matters as 2008.1 over 2008 did.

METIN2

Thu, 21 May 2009 21:31:35 +0000

METIN2 free network is a fantastic game. A lot of servers. Just sign up and login. Involves collecting and advancing technology, and teaching thinking. Have fun. Lex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metin_2_(video_game)

http://metin-2.com/

Ventilo in Wine

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:19:32 +0000

Has anybody been able to make push-to-talk work in Vent when the Vent window does not have focus?

Tales of Monkey Island

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:48:12 +0000

The first chapter of Tales of Monkey Island can be downloaded for free but only today.

www.telltalegames.com

Penumbra collection for 5$ on this weekend

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:34:43 +0000

Title says it all. The whole Penumbra collection is sold for only 5$ but only on this weekend.

If you'd like to support game studios which release their game to Linux here's your chance.

http://www.penumbragame.com/

Daggerfall: Now available for free!

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:58:39 +0000

Bethesda Softworks has released 'The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall' as a free download. The release announcement is here: Bethesda Blog

The download is here: elderscrolls.com/downloads

Please note that you will need to install and run the DOSBox emulator to play the game. You can download the installation instructions and the instructions for using dosbox to play the game on the download page.

Python version in Cedega

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:11:59 +0000

In 2009.1, Cedega still works fine for some games, but for some it complains that it wants Python version 2.3 - 2.5, then exits. Mandriva 2009.1 comes with 2.6.1 by default.

Does anybody know if there's an easy workaround for this? I'd rather use the rpms than do a manual build of an earlier version, not to mention there is a slew of packages that seem to depend on python.

Independent games festival finalists

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:31:10 +0000

It's somewhat old but there's no mentioning about it here and I just found this on an other forum. So here's the list of the finalists (scroll down for info) of the Independent Games Festival.

If you miss original material or visuals in recent games then take a look at these games and you can see creativity is not dead. Some truely unique, some of them brings new ideas to old genres.

Some of them has Linux and\or MacOS version, though most of them is Win only of course. There's also a few flash based game which runs directly in the browser.

Online MMORPG's

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:47:46 +0000

Yes, for all you gamers, there's online browser based games, no downloads required so you really don't have to worry. If you can get into this topic, you have all the requirements to play. This game reference link is a three-parter. In other words, there's three seperate games on the site.

The Legacy of Holy Castle

The brand new massive multiplayer web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle, is making its appearance. Differ from other common web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle is based on fantasy warfare story background, and the game also processes a combination of RPG and SLG elements to bring the most astounding gaming experience to its players.

Lords of Evil

Haven't played it yet, screen shots look good.

Banish Land

Haven't played either, looks good, big story line behind it.

Here's the ref link: http://www.webmmo.com/index.php?ref=328836 My name in Legacy of Holy Castle on the Leo server is WildWolfofDark. I hope to play with some of you on there, even if you're just installing RPMs for a few minutes.

World of Goo

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:35:41 +0000

Indescribable awesomeness B)

This game, world of goo, is just beautiful. Great graphics, great animation, lovely sounds, and interesting puzzles. There's a free demo, or you can buy the full thing. It's difficult to describe but imagine a cross between lemmings and sodaplay and you come kinda close.

Here's the link: http://2dboy.com/2009/02/12/world-of-goo-l...rsion-is-ready/

Just download the tar.gz, unpack it, and run the ./WorldOfGoo - it doesn't need root privileges.

3D games display severe artifacts

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:35:11 +0000

Title pretty much sums it up. Compiz works fine, 2D games work fine, 3D games have what looks like severe clipping and redraw problems. A couple black screen crashes as well (in games), and occasional crashes as the background is dimming on the restart screen (don't know if that one is related). I have 2008.1 installed with all the updates run (except 2009 obviously - don't have the bandwidth). Any ideas? What should I try?

New Torcs

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:40:06 +0000

Torcs is making progress but in the topic of the graphics. however is less and less games. I have Torcs in the 3.1 version for Mandriva 2009 Spring. It looks beautiful. One should place sound on PLIB, not on OPENAL and then we have a clear sound. It won't be possible to drive some cars. Requirements tripled.... Lex

Quake 2 R1Q2 question

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:22:12 +0000

Well, I have Quake 2 up and running on my laptop under Mandriva 2009. The problem is, apparently I need a file, R1Q2, to play on some of the multiplayer maps. Does anyone know how to get it to work? I have the file and the anticheat.dll that it's supposed to use, but it won't work. Could someone try to help me with this? Wine won't run it, VMware and VBox won't work on my laptop, so I'm kind of limited.

Quake 2 models

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:12:22 +0000

While trying to run Quake 2 under Mandriva, I tried to change my player's skin and such. When I hit enter on the Player Setup, it said at the bottom "Can't find player models", which the Windows version I have is exactly what I copied it from has theirs. Is there something I'm supposed to set up for that or not?

World Of Warcraft

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:43:10 +0000

Hello I'm new to MDV

How could I play World of warcraft on Mandriva?

Heard it runs wow faster etc :)

Greetings

Fury

Future releases of Commercial games for Linux

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:29:22 +0000

List of Interest

Unreal Tournament 3 - Unknown future, aim your anger at spy-games

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...al_tournament_3

0 .A.d. - Soon

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:0:0ad

X3: Reunion - Soon

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:x:x3

The Broken Hourglass - soon

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...roken_hourglass

Afterfall - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...cal:a:afterfall

The Legend of Crystal Valley - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph..._crystal_valley

World under Siege - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...rld_under_siege

Astromenace 2 - Under Development

Check viewizard homepage

Wakfu - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:w:wakfu

The Age of Decadence - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...ge_of_decadence

Shadowgrounds - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...s:shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds Survivor - Under Development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...rounds_survivor

Hacker Evolution - Port comming really soon

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...acker_evolution

World of Goo - Under developmet

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...:w:world_of_goo

Multiwinia - Under development

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...al:m:multiwinia

Released since thread made

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul - Released

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...ical:s:savage_2

Quake IV will be released for Linux - Released

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:q:quake_4

Serious Sam 2 for Linux - released

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/a...php?storyid=984

Penumbra: Black Plague - Released

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...ra_black_plague

On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness - Released

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alph...ice_of_darkness

UT 3 for linux?

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:46:30 +0000

I need any information about ut 3 and linux at all. I LOVE this GAME and i upgraded my PC with new Nvidia 8600GT but i play now only new Quake.

I need ut 3 on my PC more than a beer tonight ( not realy but.. ) I hate windows but ... i love UT 3 ... What i must do now? Still wait for UT 3 on linux or .. put another HDD install hated windows and .. o my god ... reboot in winmod and play my favorite GAME. Help me pls i need tis game on my linux box . :)

I had a bad day today and i need ...... DOUBLE KILL :)

Have a nice gaming on linux guis ... UT RULLLSSSSSSSSS :)

Linux Game Icons

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:12:27 +0000

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gam...s?content=87273

Knock yourself out B)

Doom3 display error [solved]

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:36:49 +0000

(To admins: This may belong under another sub-forum - perhaps in HW section or installation. Please move it, if this is a wrong forum.)

I don't know what happened with my display settings, but I cannot play Doom3 with my current login (at KDE4) anymore. Originally I was able to play Doom3 (or the RoE exp. pack) in my MDV 2009.0, but when I changed my 3D desktop to No-3D I noticed that I cannot play Doom3! Something must have gone wrong with the display settings because, when I start doom3 from konsole I get "no signal" on my screen, but still hear the sounds of the game perfectly. So the game is running well, but I just can't get any signal to my screen.

I changed it back to 3D, but nothing. I also have installed the Nvidia drivers again and tried the latest Nvidia driver (177.80) from Non-free backports. Nothing.

My display adapter is GeForce 7600 GT and I'm running the Nvidia driver 177.70.

I cannot see any error messages from the konsole as the only way to get the screen back is to restart X (Crtl - Alt - Backspace). Then I loose the konsole screen.

One other thing is that I can play the game with another login (I have two IDs at KDE4)! So how can I see what the difference is?

It occured to me that perhaps I messed the screen settings within the game itself (I did change some settings); but how can I change the settings of Doom3 without entering the game? (Catch 22)

There is something odd also with some other games as well. E.g. Tuxracer has the same effect, i.e. I don't get any signal to my screen.

The screen is connected to a DVI connector with a VGA/DVI adapter piece - if that makes any difference.

Help In installing a package

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:48:00 +0000

I m trying to install sauerbraten game into my mandriva 2009

I followed the steps provided by this forom on how to install a .tar.bz2 file into the system

I extracted the file abd I m stuck in the step where I have to prepare a configure file to use the command make install

can anyone help me???

whenever I am typing ./configure it is saying

bash - command not found

[moved from Software by Greg2]

Sauerbraten - aka Cube 2 [solved]

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:43:14 +0000

I tried to install sauerbraten a couple days ago. I d/l the tar.gz file to a GAMES folder on my desktop. Then I did the tar -xzvf thing., which resulted in a folder called sauerbraten.

I tried running the sauerbraten_unix shell script, but it doesn't do anything. There's also a folder in the sauerbraten folder called bin_unix, so I tried running the linux_client that was in there, but also nothing.

I never did these tar.gz installs very often. So, how do you run the sauerbraten game after expanding the tar.gz? Do you have to chmod +x anything? (I tried that already).

No games menu in fresh install

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:32:20 +0000

Just did a fresh install of 2008 Spring Powerpack. Nice work except one thing. Even though I installed the game packages during the install, I have absolutely no games/entertainment menus on KDE. Am I supposed to enable them in some way?

I guess I should also add that my new Mandriva install is also 'sharing' the same /home partition I use with my PCLinuxOS install. (triple boot system)

TIA

It's Official: Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:51:17 +0000

http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk5MQ

Since its predecessors had native Linux ports (and, imho, two of the most solid Linux clients to date, for games) it was unlikely that UT3 wouldn't be available natively, but now we know for sure

I was at a Midway event three weeks ago and saw the game - it looks awesome. Unfortunately I didn't get to play, but the graphics blew me away and I'm looking forward to trying this title out in Linux.

Well, I did it again [solved]

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:36:32 +0000

Well, I did it again. Broke something that didn't need fixing.

I had flash working reasonably well, but in trying to make some improvement on my own rather than wait for the next release, I somehow uninstalled my existing flash, as I was trying to download and install the latest beta.

End result is opera is not seeing the new flash, (it's not showing in the plugin list).

How do I tell opera where it is?

Thanks

Nic

PS also asked at opera

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Running Games with 3D Desktop

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:58:25 +0000

On both my brother's machine and my own, I cannot get Doom 3 to run while using a 3D desktop. I must turn of 3D and then the game will launch. It complains about lacking virtual memory when attempting to launch. Any solutions?

We both use Nvidia video cards with Nvidia drivers. (GeForce 7300 GS) I have 2G of RAM, 667 MHz.

Doom 4

Wed, 07 May 2008 23:24:28 +0000

Well id Software have announced Doom 4 is in production, no real details yet, but considering id's past track record with support for Linux, it may be safe to assume that Doom 4 will be coming to Linux. Yeah, lets hope so.

Perfect World (US) Closed Beta Key Giveaway Event

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:59 +0000

I was just browsing though MMOsite.com and I just saw that perfect world is having a closed beta for the US version. This is pretty cool because I played the Malaysia version and it was cool but it had such broken English and the lag was horrible. This version is gonna be completely translated to English and the servers will be hosted here. Check it out if your interested. Registration hasn't started yet though. :( All the info I could find is listed below.

http://contest.mmosite.com/giveaway/perfect_world/

http://www.perfectworld.com

> Care To Join Me In Dark Age Of Camelot?

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:17:31 +0000

Even though I'm against the monthly-subscription fee, I wanted to try out another MMORPG after guild wars. So recently I've been able to get Dark Age of Camelot+expansions pretty cheap. It included 2 months of free play, I want to see how fun it is in that period.

It would be so much nicer to have people to play with though. Anyone care to join me?

How do I start Foobillards?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:34:58 +0000

I am using Mandriva 2007 and installed Foobillards.

How do I start thew application?

Another christmas present for you

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:21:59 +0000

GarageGames made their Mech-like game Dark Horizons: Lore Invasion freely downloadable. You can use the the serial: RYD6-B2AM-6K6C-MRY4 which is now public too. Project page and download here, screenshots here, more info here.

In case the game doesn't wanna start for some reason

We will be releasing a new Linux installer soon, the legacy installer seems not to work on some distributions.

Battle Tanks

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:43:40 +0000

Battle Tanks is an arcade-style game, where you drive a tank, pick up weapons, and blast enemies. While this doesn't sound like a particularly original concept, it's the implementation that makes the game so much fun to play. First of all, there is virtually no learning curve: use the arrow keys to move your tank, shoot by pressing Ctrl, and use so-called alternative weapons with the Alt key. That's all you need to know to get started -- which is good news since Battle Tanks lacks a manual. The game also features cartoonish graphics with professionally drawn maps and funny-looking tanks, buses, cars, and even goats.

Quoted from this article: linux.com

The game is already packaged for Ubuntu and openSUSE, but it's very easy to build for Mandriva. This game must be built with scons build system, so you must install scons first. It doesn't take long to build... it takes longer to figure out how to play, and win. :)

You can get it here: btanks.sourceforge

Flash Game Can't get Keyboard to work

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:38:18 +0000

I am trying to play this guitar hero type game and I can't get the keyboard to work. I have been noticing this problem with lots of flash games, its like it just doesn't register the keyboard in Linux. Anyone else have this problem

The game is here - Guitar Hero flash game

Thanks!

Hanes

Linux Video Professor . com

Penumbra: Black Plague Demo is out!

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:12:13 +0000

Get it here: http://www.penumbrablackplague.com/

How many linux games do you own?

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:55:09 +0000

The poll will be pinned for two weeks before I'll drop it, but there can still be voting

Easy question. How many linux game have you bought?

StarCraft 2: Let it be known you want to play!

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:58:08 +0000

http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html

I searched for starcraft2 starcraft 2 starcraft II. Didn't see any post on it.

So here ya go.

Tech

A twit who doesn't know what he did [solved]

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:10:38 +0000

How I got Eschalon book 1 to run in the first place I don't know. Ssomehow i extracted it and it ended up here (/home/nic/.opera/cache4/temporary_download/eschalon_book_1_demo/), And it ran quite well.... but without any sound.

So looking on the internet i found something saying to use the sound default, by doing this.

./soundwrapper eschalon........ and not knowing what that really meant i went to the icon for eschalon right clicked, went to properties and entered in the field there ./soundwrapper esch.....

clicked ok, and it was gone.

not one to be detered by doing something stupid I thought perhaps if i repeated the steps on another file in the same directory I would see what happened, So i chose the purchase the full game file, right clicked on the icon, went to properties, entered ./soundwrapper purchaseit..etc. and clicked ok, and now that file was gone.

I'm sure i could do it again with all the other files in the dirctory, but i thought that i had accomplished quite enough for the evening.

My only excuse is that while i understand the file structure/system from old dos and windows I have no idea what is going on in Mandriva/linux, neither do i understand its extensions.

so,

Where do you think my files went to, and how do I get them back.

And once that is done how do I get sound to work in eschalon..

Thanks from, who only the polite call, a newbie.

[moved from Software by Greg2]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:29 +0000

It's out, and I love it. I suspect I'll waste as many hours of my life on this as I did on the original ET.

The Linux client is not out yet but will be available as a download soon. For now it works just fine under wine. Instructions to make it work.

Note: Make sure you're running the correct version of wine! I installed the correct version and followed all the instructions correctly, but when I went to start the game I type typed wine blahblahblah..., and it used the version it found in /usr/bin/somethingsomething, which didn't work. Once I explicitly specified the path to my wine it worked just fine.

Mandrake-compatible classics

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:45:41 +0000

While I enjoy games available on URPMI, such as Beneath a steel sky (Joey is hilarious!) and neverball, I can't find classics such as dungeon or galaga. I know there's an xgalaga out there, but I can't get any rpms of it to work right on my mandrake installation.

Anyone know of any good roguelike games, as well, that aren't text-based? It's just too much a pain in the butt for me to learn all the commands and stuff. I know FalconsEye Nethack works (tip: if you can't get it working set it to run in terminal, the rpm doesn't set that automatically, oops!) but is there anything else?

my games are missing in KDE

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:37:17 +0000

So I installed a few game packages, most notably a few emulators and the kdegames package, but the ONLY thing that pops up under the Kmenu -> Games is Zsnes!! NONE of the KDE games show up and the other emulators (Gens, Visualboy, etc) aren't there...they're (for some reason) under Kmenu -> Tools -> Emulators (along with another link to Zsnes). I've gone to the Mandriva Control Center to verify that the packages are installed, and they are. Is there some reason why they wouldn't show up under Kmenu -> Games and how can i fix this?

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Sauerbraten and Mandriva 2008 Spring

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:12:22 +0000

Hi, I would like to play Sauerbraten Assassin Edition under 2008 Spring. I've installed all available SDL libraries and even succeeded to go through the installation's procedure, but when I try to play the game at the point of "Recalculating Geometry" shown in the corner, the X server crashes and I'm getting the login screen. The same troubles are with all the SDL driven games. What's wrong?

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Knights crash error

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:01:03 +0000

I found this, and may explain why Knights errored out. I noticed the path for the wav file is wrong.

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...st&p=239854

The above message refers to Jose as a chess program. I can't seem to find it. Is it in urpmi? Thanks.

installing games on 2008.0

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:50:46 +0000

I have just installed 2008.0 and I thought that I would install some of my favorite games. When I tried to install both ut2004 and Doom3 (using installers) I got the following response in a blue DOS screen - "You are running a x86 machine with glibc-2.1 Operating system: Mandrake Linux 2008.0". There is also a dos response (yes) etc. Then the installation just won''t go much further.

When I previously installed these games in 2006 everything went smoothly.

Is anybody able to tell me what the trouble might be? I only stalled 2008 yesterday and am still getting to grips with it.

Many thanks.

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